Availability and accessibility (AA) has been consistently shown across studies as the most important correlate of fruits and vegetables (FV) intake. However, there is little data on factors that influence AA of FV, especially in Hispanic families. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to examine the association between parental factors, child's preferences for FV and AA of FV in homes...

In this month’s issue of Pediatrics, Fernandez et al1 invite us to consider that a diverse diet (DD) and varied diet should not be advocated to prevent obesity. They studied children and their primary caregivers who were enrolled in Head Start in southeastern Michigan to provide a window on US low-income, preschool-aged children of mixed race/ethnicity. They applied the Harvard Service Food Fre...

eBASIS (Bioactive Substances in Food Information Systems), a web-based database that contains compositional and biological effects data for bioactive compounds of plant origin, has been updated with new data on fruits and vegetables, wheat and, due to some evidence of potential beneficial effects, extended to include meat bioactives. eBASIS remains one of only a handful of comprehensive and sea...

BACKGROUND Studies of neighborhood context on health behavior have not considered that the health benefits of context may be 'capitalized' into, or included in, higher housing values. This study examines the associations of better neighborhood context with neighborhood housing values. METHODS We use the third wave of Add Health (2000-2001) to estimate the association of neighborhood contextua...

OBJECTIVES This study examines whether belief in the food addiction construct is associated with support for obesity-related policies (e.g., restrictions on foods served in schools and workplace cafeterias, subsidies on fruits and vegetables), while simultaneously examining other factors associated with policy support (e.g., political party affiliation). DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Onli...

INTRODUCTION The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing worldwide. In Australia rural populations have a greater burden of disease. Chronic diseases are largely preventable with diet as a key risk factor. With respect to diet-related chronic disease, dietary risk may be due to poor food access, namely, poor availability and/or the high cost of healthy food. It is likely that poor food...

Compost, poultry litter, IPM Lab Biopesticide and BAU-Biofungicide, either alone or in combinations, were assessed for their effect in controlling early blight disease, and on growth and yield parameters of tomato. The lowest early blight incidence and severity were recorded in T13 (compost tea + poultry litter extract + BAU-Bio-fungicide) followed by T12 (compost tea + poultry litter extract +...

Background Epidemiology of food allergy is currently the focus of considerable research interest. Particularly important appears the recognition of novel food allergens and the characterization of specific food allergy patterns, relevant to homogeneous geographic areas with distinct alimentary habits, such as the Mediterranean area. Here we report on recent findings on allergy to Mediterranean ...

BACKGROUND Apple allergy manifests as two main groups of clinical entities reflecting different patterns of allergen sensitization: oral allergy syndrome (OAS) and generalized symptoms (GS). OBJECTIVE We analysed the sensitization profile to a wide panel of different components of food allergens (rMal d 1, Mal d 2, rMal d 3, rMal d 4, rPru p 3, rBet v 1 and Pho d 2) for a population of Medite...